The real heart of open source lies in its potential to be greater than the sum of its parts, the capacity to leverage the talent and abilities of an entire community of developers and users who are striving towards a common goal, according to an editorial at Linux Insider.

Back to the subject. Sorry that the fangirls don't want to hear the truth, but the vast majority of OSS developers are not getting paid, and as ACM pointed out, basically act as unpaid drones to help the bottom line of RedHat, Novell and IBM.